I have a new article out! It's open access, so please share the link far and wide. Thank you! 😁 doi.org/10.1093/appl...

New office 😀

We had such a lovely, festive time at the Burgh Island Hotel. We'll be back for sure! 💃🏻🏝️

I’m at the Cabinet Office to talk about Polari today.

Just published - Distorted realities: Gender bias in Chinese news representations of wives and husbands in domestic violence articles - new article in Discourse & Communication co-authored with @scarlett0815.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

My new Open Access article in Discourse and Society with Rickey Lu: Holistic, nurturing and sustainable: Discursive shift in corporate social responsibility reporting. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

How do you decide whether or not to use AI tools in your research? One approach is to judge the extent to which they align with the values that underpin your research - in this open access paper we look at this question of alignment. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Check it out - the corpus MOOC is back (15th September) on a new platform (edX) exploring new topics, including AI. One thing has not changed - it is still free to access 😁 Find out more here: www.edx.org/learn/social...

Just received the final proofs of this book, based on @corpussocialsci.bsky.social research on health communication. It will be out *open access* later this year. @paulari.bsky.social @gavinbrookes.bsky.social @lukeccollins.bsky.social @tonymcenery.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/books/a...

What happens when you use AI to tag 8546 images in a 1.5m word corpus of UK news about Islam? How accurate is the tagger? What's the relationship between images and words? My new Cambridge Element with @hannaschmueck.bsky.social and Yufang Qian is now free to access www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Great plenary by @proftaylor.bsky.social and @journolinguist.bsky.social at #CL2025

A great week at the Lancaster University Summer School in Corpus Linguistics. I think this is the 15th year I've taught on it.

@mollyconisbee.bsky.social congrats on your Guardian article today!

One of my favourite places might not last much longer 😟https://www.theguardian.com/food/2025/apr/14/uks-oldest-indian-restaurant-faces-closure-in-dispute-with-crown-estate

Very proud that my department (Linguistics and English Language) is placed 3rd in the world for a second year www.lancaster.ac.uk/news/lancast...

My recent Darwin College lecture at the University of Cambridge on Polari is now available on YouTube eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

Great to represent @lancslinguistics.bsky.social and give a Darwin College lecture at the University of Cambridge this evening on Polari. Among others, the series has hosted Mary Beard, Desmond Tutu, David Crystal, Noam Chomsky, Stephen Hawking and Sandy Toksvig. It was a bona nochy.

Happy to say this was published yesterday: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Happy to share my review of 'Vocabulary, Corpus and Language Teaching', just out in ELT Journal. #artificialintelligence #ChatGPT #elt academic.oup.com/eltj/advance...

Great to chat with @ollyalexander.bsky.social about his fantabulosa new album Polari on The Today Show this morning 👏❤️🌈